Milling cutter



June 5, 1945.

s. FRANCIS 2,377,773

MILLING CUTTER Filed ma 25, 1945 Patented June 5, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MILLING CUTTER Sydney Francis, Weeton, near Leeds, England Application May 25, 1943, Serial No. 488,348 In Great Britain June 16, 1942 2 Claims. (Cl.29105) This invention relates to cutting tools for milling and similar operations. I

An object of the invention is to provide for the more economic manufacture of such tools.

Another object is to provide that the tools will be more efllcient in use.

A further object is to so construct the tool that it will the better withstand vibrations and other shocks to which such tools are subject during use.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a half elevation of a milling cutter made in accordance with this invention, one of the teeth thereof being omitted.

. Fig. 2 is a vertical section, and

Fig. 3 is a half elevation. similar to Fig. 1, but showing the assembly of laminae before insertion of the teeth.

The body member of the cutter, comprises a plurality of outer laminae I09 and an inner lamina lllj in the form of metal discs assembled in juxtaposition at their lateral faces. At spaced intervals in the pheriphery of each lamina, teeth receiving recesses 20c are provided. Each lamina I and I0! is provided with a spindle receiving bore It to which a keyway i6 is provided in the laminae log and a similar keyway l6a in the lamina I 07. The keyway IBa, however, is located slightly out of register with the keyways l6 when all the laminae are assembled with their teeth receiving recesses c inregistry, as seen in Fig. 3. The inner lamina Illf constitutes a locking plate for engaging a groove 40 in the front edge 4| of each tooth I'Ze. The locking effect upon the teeth He is achieved by providing that the said looking plate "if is to be rotated relative to the other laminae Illg duringassembly of the body and teeth. The method of assembly is such that the laminae lilg with the locking plate Inf are juxtaposed with their teeth receiving recesses 200 in registry and the teeth l2e inserted therein. The lockingplate I0! is then rotated upon its axis to bring the front walls 42 of its recesses into engagement with the grooves 40 in the front edges 4| of the teeth l2e, whereupon all the laminae my and locking plate I 0) are secured together by pins 43 or the like and in addition, by welding, brazing or soldering. The teeth are then welded or brazen to the body member.

The rotary movement of the locking plate It! may very conveniently be effected by providing taper holes 44 in the locking plate and the remaining laminae for receiving the taper securing pins 43 and arranging that the holes in the locking plate are slightly out of register with the holes of the remaining laminae when the teeth receiving recesses in all laminae and the lockin plate coincide as is illustrated in Fi 3. On insertion of the taper securing pins 43, therefore, the locking plate Inf will be caused to rotate as the taper pins enter the holes 44 therein and bring them into register with the holes 44 in the remaining laminae. This movement thereby brings the front walls 42 of the teeth receiving recesses in the locking plate into engagement with the grooves 40 in the teeth l2e, thus locking the teeth in position.

A milling cutter or similar tool made in accordance with this invention will therefore, owing to itsv comprising a laminated body with teeth welded, soldered, brazed, deposited, or otherwise fixed thereto, absorb vibration and other shocks met with when in use.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A milling cutter comprising a body member consisting of a plurality of disc-like laminae each provided with circumferentially spacedteeth-receiving recesses and assembled in juxtaposed relation at their lateral faces to present the recesses of adjacent laminae in such adjacency that the walls of said recesses are in alinement throughout the thickness of the body, grooved cutting teeth secured in said recesses and projecting radially beyond the edge of the body member, an intermediate one of said laminae being rotationally displaceable with relation to the remaining laminae thereby to carry one wall of each recess in said intermediate lamina into engagement with the groove in one of said teeth, the constituent elements of said cutter being welded or brazed together to form a unitary structure.

2. A milling cutter comprising a body member consisting of a plurality of disc-like laminae each provided with circumferentially spaced teethreceiving recesses and assembled in juxtaposed relation at their lateral faces to present the recesses of adjacent laminae in such adjacency that the walls of said recesses extend in continuous alinement throughout the thickness of the body, grooved cutting teeth secured in said recesses and projecting radially beyond the edge of the body member, an intermediate one of said laminae being rotationally displaceable with relation to the remaining laminae thereby to carry one wall of each recess in said intermediate lamina into engagement with the groove in one of said teeth, the teeth being welded or brazed to the laminae, and-members passing through the laminae and securing said laminae together.

SYDNEY FRANCIS. 

